Estienne

(Henri), the ablest of a family of learned French printers, known in England as Stephens; b. Paris, 1528. At the age of eighteen he a isted his father in collating the MSS. of Dionysius of Halicarna us. In 1557 he established a printing office of his own, and i ued many Greek authors; and in 1572 the Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ . His Apologie pour Herodote (Englished as a World of Wonders) is designed as a satire on Christian legends, and directed against priests and priestcraft. He was driven from place to place. Sir Philip Sidney highly esteemed him, and “kindly entertained him in his travaile.” Died 1598. Gara e cla es him with Atheists.